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Fallout 3 Review (ecm1980)

ecm1980 | Apr 29, 2009 | Views: 131 |

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Pros

Fun, Good Story, Hours and hours of enjoyment

Cons

the end of the game, easy enemies at higher levels

Full Review

Fallout 3 is the latest installment in the Fallout series, based in a post apocalyptic wasteland near Washington D.C. Fallout 3 has won several awards including "Game of the Year", and rightly so. It's one of the must own titles for 360.
The game features a fairly robust character creation tool, even including a robust selection of facial hair! You start the game as a young man living in Vault 101. The vaults are a series of elaborate bunkers that were designed to sustain human life in the post nuclear world, or at least that's what you're led to believe.
You don't spend much time in Vault 101 though, you're soon forced to leave to pursue your father after he leaves for unknown reasons. Your first steps outside the vault introduce you to the scope of the wasteland. It's BIG. And you're definitely not alone. The wasteland has a lot to do, and a lot to discover. There are human settlements, strongholds, ruined cities, mutant animals, raiders, giant mutant humanoids that want to kill you, and ... irradiated soda pop?
The game isn't ALL about exploration, though. A big part of this game is the choices you make as you travel the wasteland. Will you be a ruthless scoundrel or the savior of the wasteland?
Fallout 3 also employs a different take on battle than you're probably used to. It's V.A.T.S. and its awesome. It stands for Vaultech Assisted Targeting System and it lets you pause the action and target a specific area of your enemy like the head, legs, arms, or torso and makes for some great slow motion kill shots.
The game's not perfect, however. For a game with so much exploring to do, the game play doesn't really reward you for doing it. As you inevitably level up while traveling the wasteland, you will eventually get to a point when not a single enemy, in fact not even a horde of enemies, are a challenge for you, except for giant radscorpions and deathclaws... I really hate those things. Only one other gripe during my time with this game. When it's over, it's over. I'd have really liked the game to continue on regardless of the main story ending.
My personal opinion is that this game was VERY worth the purchase and is one of my favorite games for 360 so far.